Change a few critical checks that were failing sometimes:
- A few asserts were changed to wait_for_object_condition
- A 15 second timeout was removed (default used instead)
- Do a full scan at beginning of each test to clear any
cached BSS's. The second test run was getting stale results
and the RSSI values were not expected.
This was not being properly honored when existing networks were
already populated. This poses an issue for any test which uses
full_scan after setting radio values such as signal strength.
For quite a while test-runner has run into frequent OOM exceptions when
running many tests in a row. Its not completely known exactly why, but
seems to point to the 9p driver which is used for sharing the root fs
between the test-runner VM and the host.
With debugging enabled (-d) one can see the available memory available
relatively stable. If a test fails it may spike ~3-4kb but this quickly
recovers as python garbage collects.
At some point the kernel faults failing to allocate which (usually) is
shown by a python OOM exception. At this point there is plenty of
available memory.
Dumping the kernel trace its seen that the 9p driver is involved:
[ 248.962949] test-runner: page allocation failure: order:7, mode:0x40dc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0
[ 248.962958] CPU: 2 PID: 477 Comm: test-runner Not tainted 5.16.0 #91
[ 248.962960] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/01/2014
[ 248.962961] Call Trace:
[ 248.962964] <TASK>
[ 248.962965] dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44
[ 248.962971] warn_alloc.cold+0x78/0xdc
[ 248.962975] ? __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x14c/0x1e0
[ 248.962979] __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0+0xbfe/0xc60
[ 248.962982] __alloc_pages+0x2d5/0x2f0
[ 248.962984] kmalloc_order+0x23/0x80
[ 248.962988] kmalloc_order_trace+0x14/0x80
[ 248.962990] v9fs_alloc_rdir_buf.isra.0+0x1f/0x30
[ 248.962994] v9fs_dir_readdir+0x51/0x1d0
[ 248.962996] ? __handle_mm_fault+0x6e0/0xb40
[ 248.962999] ? inode_security+0x1d/0x50
[ 248.963009] ? selinux_file_permission+0xff/0x140
[ 248.963011] iterate_dir+0x16f/0x1c0
[ 248.963014] __x64_sys_getdents64+0x7b/0x120
[ 248.963016] ? compat_fillonedir+0x150/0x150
[ 248.963019] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[ 248.963021] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
[ 248.963024] RIP: 0033:0x7fedd7c6d8c7
[ 248.963026] Code: 00 00 0f 05 eb b7 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa b8 ff ff ff 7f 48 39 c2 48 0f 47 d0 b8 d9 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 01 c3 48 8b 15 81 a5 0f 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48
[ 248.963028] RSP: 002b:00007ffd06cd87e8 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000d9
[ 248.963031] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000056090d87dd20 RCX: 00007fedd7c6d8c7
[ 248.963032] RDX: 0000000000080000 RSI: 000056090d87dd50 RDI: 000000000000000f
[ 248.963033] RBP: 000056090d87dd50 R08: 0000000000000030 R09: 00007fedc7d37af0
[ 248.963035] R10: 00007fedc7d7d730 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: ffffffffffffff88
[ 248.963038] R13: 000056090d87dd24 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000056090d0485e8
Here its seen an allocation of 512k is being requested (order:7), but faults.
In this run it there was ~35MB of available memory on the system.
Available Memory: 35268 kB
Last Test Delta: -2624 kB
Per-test Usage:
[ 0] ** 37016
[ 1] ********* 41584
[ 2] * 36280
[ 3] ********* 41452
[ 4] ******** 40940
[ 5] ****** 39284
[ 6] **** 38348
[ 7] *** 37496
[ 8] **** 37892
[ 9] 35268
This can be reproduced by running all autotests (changing the ram down to
~128MB helps trigger it faster):
./tools/test-runner -k <kernel> -d
After many attempts to fix this it was finally found that simply removing the
explicit 9p2000.u version from the kernel command line 'fixed' the problem.
This even allows decreasing the RAM down to 256MB from 384MB and so far no
OOM's have been seen.
In debug mode the test context is printed before each test. This
adds some additional information in there:
Available Memory: /proc/meminfo: MemAvailable
Last Test Delta: Change in usage between current and last test
Per-test Usage: Graph of usage relative to all past tests. This is
useful for seeing a trend down/up of usage.
This could fail and was not being checked. It was minimally changed to
take the ifindex directly (this was the only thing needed from the ethdev)
which allows checking prior to initializing the ethdev.
Running the tests inside a VM makes it difficult for the host to figure
out if the test actually failed or succeeded. For a human its easy to
read the results table, but for an automated system parsing this would
be fragile. This adds a new option --result <file> which writes PASS/FAIL
to the provided file once all tests are completed. Any failures results in
'FAIL' being written to the file.
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The logic here assumed any BSS's in the roam scan were identical to
ones in station's bss_list with the same address. Usually this is true
but, for example, if the BSS changed frequency the one in station's
list is invalid.
Instead when a match is found remove the old BSS and re-insert the new
one.
With the addition of 6GHz '6000' is no longer the maximum frequency
that could be in .known_network.freq. For more robustness
band_freq_to_channel is used to validate the frequency.
Scanning while in AP mode is somewhat of an edge case, but it does
have some usefulness specifically with onboarding new devices, i.e.
a new device starts an AP, a station connects and provides the new
device with network credentials, the new device switches to station
mode and connects to the desired network.
In addition this could be used later for ACS (though this is a bit
overkill for IWD's access point needs).
Since AP performance is basically non-existant while scanning this
feature is meant to be used in a limited scope.
Two DBus API's were added which mirror the station interface: Scan and
GetOrderedNetworks.
Scan is no different than the station variant, and will perform an active
scan on all channels.
GetOrderedNetworks diverges from station and simply returns an array of
dictionaries containing basic information about networks:
{
Name: <ssid>
SignalStrength: <mBm>
Security: <psk, open, or 8021x>
}
Limitations:
- Hidden networks are not supported. This isn't really possible since
the SSID's are unknown from the AP perspective.
- Sharing scan results with station is not supported. This would be a
convenient improvement in the future with respect to onboarding new
devices. The scan could be performed in AP mode, then switch to
station and connect immediately without needing to rescan. A quick
hack could better this situation by not flushing scan results in
station (if the kernel retains these on an iftype change).
This was already implemented in station but with no dependency on
that module at all. AP will need this for a scanning API so its
being moved into scan.c.
The 802.11ax standards adds some restrictions for the 6GHz band. In short
stations must use SAE, OWE, or 8021x on this band and frame protection is
required.
All uses of this macro will work with a bitwise comparison which is
needed for 6GHz checks and somewhat more flexible since it can be
used to compare RSN info, not only single AKM values.
This adds checks if MFP is set to 0 or 1:
0 - Always fail if the frequency is 6GHz
1 - Fail if MFPC=0 and the frequency is 6GHz.
If HW is capable set MFPR=1 for 6GHz
This is a new band defined in the WiFi 6E (ax) amendment. A completely
new value is needed due to channel reuse between 2.4/5 and 6GHz.
util.c needed minimal updating to prevent compile errors which will
be fixed later to actually handle this band. WSC also needed a case
added for 6GHz but the spec does not outline any RF Band value for
6GHz so the 5GHz value will be returned in this case.
